1981 thriller films

1981 film by Lawrence Kasdan

1981 film by Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov

1981 film by Noel Marshall

Looker is a 1981 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Michael Crichton, starring Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey, and Leigh Taylor-Young. It follows a series of mysterious deaths plaguing female models who have had cosmetic surgery done by a renowned Los Angeles physician. The film explores media, advertising and television's impact on the public in creating a ridiculous standard of beauty.

Roadgames (stylised as Road Games) is a 1981 Australian thriller film directed by Richard Franklin and starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film follows a truck driver travelling across Australia who, with the help of a hitchhiker, seeks to track down a serial killer who is butchering women and dumping their dismembered bodies along desolate highways.

1981 film directed by Alan J. Pakula

1981 film by Bigas Luna

1981 film by Laurent Heynemann

1981 film directed by Bob Brooks

1981 Tamil film directed by K. Balachander